Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lorent's story clearly exemplifies what had been in the mind of most Frenchmen in recent years. Like Abbé Lorent, they had hoped they would be able to collaborate with Communists in the national task of putting France on her feet again, only to realize gradually that every effort to get along with them was doomed to failure...
Embarrassing Present. The prime Republican business of the new year would be to get swift passage of a tax-reduction bill. Last week House Speaker Joe Martin predicted that Congress would "send the White House a tax present some time in January." The present he had in mind was the bill introduced in December by Minnesota's persistent Harold Knutson, whose two previous bills were vetoed by Harry Truman. The new bill would cut taxes some $5.6 billion, by reducing rates and increasing personal exemptions...
Like it or not (and Wallace did not seem to mind), his only visible means of support seemed to be the Communists and the organizations the Reds controlled.* Wrote Columnist Frank Kingdon, who resigned as co-chairman of the Progressive Citizens of America after P.C.A. had engineered the Wallace candidacy: "The record is clear. The call to Wallace came from the Communist Party...
What happened to him after that was quite unusual in Kansas. State highway patrolmen, who ordinarily pay no mind to citizens bringing in small amounts of liquor, stopped his car and searched...
...have no uccesser in mind for the $10,000a-year job, but it will probably be someone outside the present coaching staff," director of athletic publicity Arthur Sampson stated earlier today for Athletic Director William J. Bingham, who is attending the NCAA Rules Committee meeting in New York...